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The weather/climatic system and how it should impact your health condition I thought about different climatic areas and how they could effect your health condition. Of course the map would need a proper size and not to much different climatic areas so it won't become unrealistic. The basic idea is that the map transitions from a moderate climate to polar region as the game is settled in a post-soviet state. On the south coast and parts of the south-east coast a more moderate climate (temperateness) would occur. The weather would consist of more rain and sometimes storms with greater waves on the ocean and from time to time bright sunshine. This climate should not effect your health condition to much but you would have to take care of too much rain/storms and the temperature at night. High waves will get dangerous for boats. Also in this climatic area more vegetation and (dangerous) animals would appear. If you travel up north into the inland and parts of the east coast it will get slowly colder and vegetation/animals gets more and more less on your way so you have climatic transition (subarctic climate/tundra). In this area it rains from time to time and sometimes heavy winds occur. To stay here for a longer time will slowly take you temperature down and at night the coldness can become mortal danger. So you would have to find cover/fire from time to time or some thermal clothing. The north and north-east coast would be a winter landscape/polar region full of snow and ice. Less but therefore more dangerous animals (e.g. ice bears) would appear. The climate in this area would be a hostile to life with a lot of snowing, blizzards from time to time and ice floes on the north-east coast. You can't stay long alive in this area without having the right survival skills and gear otherwise you become hypothermic very fast. Thermo clothing would be the basic gear to survive here, blizzards can kill you easily when you don't find (or maybe build?) some kind of cover/shelter and wild animals could kill you when you don't pay enough attention. Of course the weather/climatic condition needs to impact on a lot of other things: flight characteristics of bullets driveability of vehicles damage taken of tents/vehicles zombie behavior ... This way the environment would become a lot more dangerous (as it is way to easy at the moment) and it would require a lot more skill to go up north for looting/raiding/surviving. Maybe even team play benefits from that as surviving on your own would be much more difficult.

Codemaster's EGO engine for the newer Operation Flashpoint games could easily do a better job at this game. It's still got the bullet physics, the large play areas, better hit location, damage physics, has the wide variety of guns, far more building interiors, superior graphics, and still manages to run at a higher framerate. It's still a simulator engine, but it's more polished and better experience than the aging Real Virtuality system. I do prefer ARMA 2's aircraft and helicopter handling though and overall variety of vehicles. I've got Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, ARMA, ARMA2 (obviously), Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, and Operation Flashpoint: Red River... I've pretty much experienced everything both engines have to offer up to this point. The Real Virtuality system has not evolved much, and is barely a visual upgrade from what it looked like in Cold War Crisis. The X-Ray engine from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. would also be a fantastic choice for a zombie apocalypse game.

so me and a couple of freinds have been playin on us 132,we found a couple of their bases and stole a few vehicles..(well tried) first time we found a truck at a tent city so we decide to take it,there was about 4 people on the server including us,we stopped up north past lipertino and started taking fire my freind was killed. i managed to get away and made it to zenorgorsk where fuck nos what happend but my leg broke and i ejected from the vehicle,i was knocked out and bleeding when sudenly the bleeding stopped and i regained 1200 blood still ko,i come round and the truck is destroyed next to me and there are a few dead zeds on the floor (this was a pretty cool experience but i dont no exactly what happend) ok so next we find another base just a bit further north than the last and on the second time we check it theres 3 vehicles and the heli,so we grab the heli take it to our near by base as it was leaking fuel then jump in the truck and make our way back to get the other vehicles. while we were fixing up the cars we hear the heli taking off so we bast it out the sky with there as50's killing the two people inside and sending the helo crashing itnto the ground. then this dude appears out of no where and kills us all lol. so we make our way back to the camp to find about 20 buses and a shit load of cows and all the legit vehicles moved so today i spwan in at kamenka to find a brad new helii waiting for me on the coast near the lighthouse so i jump in and fly it to the top of the map and waited low and behold the usual suspects connect and within 10 i hear invisible poeple running around so i jumped out the heli and went to some bushes and low and behold the heli blows up and i get shot by someone on the edge of the map bunch of pricks cheers for the as50s

I would consider it abuse because you would be forcing a reset of tents/vehicles upon your player base. They would lose their work. You'd also be resetting things on your request/ability, guaranteeing first shot at vehicles and the like. The ONLY way to reset a server's tents/vehicles/etc. is to open a support ticket with DayZ staff and request a brand new instance ID. I'm not sure what the prerequisite is for a new instance ID and if it's even something they'll do. But, that would be the only way.

Im making this post hoping that one of the devs will pick it up or someone will spread the word cause as many of the ppl that play dayz know the increasing number of hackers have grown so much the last couple of weeks that it has reached a point were i can almost not join a server without either finding a ammo crate with all the best gear in or getting killed in some mysterious way. Although this is very anoying that is not what i want to rais awareness of cause most of the hackers don't understand what happends when they hacke. Cause when they say get killed and decides to hack they will most likely spawn in the best gear and if one persone did this it would not be a problem but when thousends of ppl do this the looting becomes useless and i find it better to patrol the cost for militarly gear than actually going to the military loot spot just because it is easier to kill a noob that spawned in gear than actually go to NWAF to MAYBE find something good. This for me turns the game into a more of a COD shooter were you are almost given the gear in the face and asked to shoot the guy next too you. The second thing i wanne talk about is vehicles cause when after they fixed ppl not be able to spawn in vehicles anymore hackers need to find other ways to get their vehicles then they turn to ESP and Teleporting and that would be ok if the hackers was going for the old bikes but hey we all know they just popp up their map and find the ONE chopper that most of the time only respawns after 7 DAYS and when they are done with it they either crash it or just leave it in the middle of nowhere so it is almost impossible to find. Thus making it (almost)impossible for a legit player to actually find a chopper nowdays. You might think hey this is just talk well no it is not: After around 7 days of searching for a chopper and then i mean going on all the spawn points each day + searching for camps i found nothing.....so i decided to HACK to see if there was actually any choppers there at all so i searched for hacks on google and found a site for hacks it was totally free only had to registrate and click in on the forums only seconds after i got in on the forums the script executors was almost thrown in my face they came pre compiled was approved by an admin on the site and even a 6 year old could figure out how it works. Another quick search on the forums and i found and easy EPS and teleport hack. So i went to the server and turned the EPS on and to my suprise there was a chopper on the server but when i TPed over i quickly found out that it was crashed. so i decided to find another server to check there. When i entred the second server it was the same thing chopper was destroyed 20 servers later i still had no chopper and im sure there is alot more servers that still haven't gotten a chopper even worse on some servers all the vehicles were pilled up in the far north corner non were destroyed and they would not respawn for a long time if the hacker had taken his time to save all of them. After a couple of server hopps for choppers later i decided to try to spawn in some gear so i did a quick search on the forums again and found a script for full gear with baisicly the best gear you can obtain. With the single push of a button i had all the best gear in the game i was freshly spawn on the beach with 0 stats and a sudden thought struck me what am i going to do now ? i had all the best gear i could travel across the map with a click and i only found one option left kill someone the onyl objektive left is to kill ppl there is no need to search for vehicles anymore there is no reason to go to the NW airfield and there is no reason to hide in the forest and survive casue if i die in a fire fight i can just press a hotkey and get all the gear back. so at this point i logged off and deleted arma 2 from my PC cause there is no reason to play anymore. I hope this has given everyone a little wake up call about the amount of hacking currently going on. Regards Iths And yes as you may see im not from England or USA so my grammar will not be perfect but you get my point.

Wait, tents and vehicles are fixed? When did that happen?

Thanks for the report, we've cleared up the situation and restarted. Unfortunately this form of cheating is still undetected and now that vehicles save locations all servers are susceptible to this form of griefing.

Has the "respawning at the beach with no gear" glitch even been addressed yet? I mean, props to you for fixing the tent and vehicles but in my opinion the no gear respawn glitch was of more urgent need of attention. It seems to occur more often these days. I'm honestly hesitant and afraid to log in because of this. Please fix this issue as well.

I'm using the DayZ community createvehicl.txt, remoteexec.txt, scripts.txt from Google Code, and my server isn't logging shit. Everyone just got teleported. Someone earlier teleported all the vehicles on the server. None of that is being logged. The only line is in createnvehicle.log 25.08.2012 17:57:24: Denkan (213.64.92.148:2304) 9d196d85a6667466cf8e38d195353696 - #0 "DZ_Assault_Pack_EP1" 11:6 [0,0,0] #1 is that a cheat? #2 why isn't my server logging any of this

Hi, you are welcome to check us out at The BSB Network. We're a social gaming community that is dedicated to fair and fun gaming. We have over 200 players in various Fire teams and groups playing Day Z and using our Teamspeak Server to communicate and coordinate their scavenges and raids. These teams have several bases, vehicles, camps and play across several of our own home servers. The community is mostly adult gamers over the age of 20 (well over in most cases!) but there are no age, time or skill requirements - all we ask is you play fair and have a bit of common sense about you! Our members are based all over the world and are on at all times of the day and night, but all speak English and most are based in the UK and Mainland Europe with some in the US too. We've been gaming as a community since 2002, so we're not some ad-hoc fly by night clan that's been quickly set up and will be gone in the blink of an eye! There is no obligation to join our clan or any of our affiliated clans/groups to take part in our sessions though, everyone is free to urn up and get involved. If you're interested check out or website @ www.bsbnetwork.com and try to hop on our Teamspeak 3 server and say "hi!" 212.187.246.58:9140

aww man that sucks :\ not playing due to vehicles and tents not working well. not sure about now, but i will try out lingor island since there are less hackers. i'll prolly hop onto hive servers more when vehicles and tents finally work or when the gang needs a meat shield :P Edit: I havent been on for quite a while and yes, i've updated the patch notes. if vehicles and tents work now then i'll prolly play more of this :D

How is it interpreted as abuse as all I want to do is put the whole server to stock? Wipe the slate clean. My camp and vehicles would be reset as well.

Hi, you are welcome to check us out at The BSB Network. We're a social gaming community that is dedicated to fair and fun gaming. We have over 200 players in various Fire teams and groups playing Day Z and using our Teamspeak Server to communicate and coordinate their scavenges and raids. These teams have several bases, vehicles, camps and play across several of our own home servers. The community is mostly adult gamers over the age of 20 (well over in most cases!) but there are no age, time or skill requirements - all we ask is you play fair and have a bit of common sense about you! Our members are based all over the world and are on at all times of the day and night, but all speak English and most are based in the UK and Mainland Europe with some in the US too. We've been gaming as a community since 2002, so we're not some ad-hoc fly by night clan that's been quickly set up and will be gone in the blink of an eye! There is no obligation to join our clan or any of our affiliated clans/groups to take part in our sessions though, everyone is free to urn up and get involved. If you're interested check out or website @ www.bsbnetwork.com and try to hop on our Teamspeak 3 server and say "hi!" 212.187.246.58:9140

same goes for tank traps that can be used as support beams, and maybe introduce rusty metal sheets or something of the likes to make walls. also would be epic to have ghillie net to throw over vehicles/tents/buildings/whatever. , should be like *covers an area of 6x6meters or something, so like for an ural you'd need 2~4 nets. also re-usable.

Once a vehicle is destroyed, it takes 7 days to respawn. This is intentional. It is not a bug. http://www.dayzwiki.com/wiki/Vehicles#Vehicle_FAQ That's just how the game works, by design.

I support this if other construction vehicles were implemented. I would love to drive a bulldozer through camps and turn over a chopper or truck same with a forklift; I would love nothing better than to drive it into a hoarded vehcile and satchel charge them both

We have the same problem on DE 2102. After someone stole the chopper and crashed it, the chopper didn't come back. It disappeared and didn't respawn. It's 3 or 4 days ago. Same for the vehicles. Can't find any vehicle anymore. I found a bicycle in a wood, that's all. Please help.

What happened to your server fellers. I enjoyed hunting you guys and having battles for vehicles :)

What does one person need a tractor and 2 bikes for?? I think servers should reset all vehicles after each reset... Make the requirements to fix the vehicles alot lower along with that...

Camo netting or even paint for vehicles its pretty hard to hide a bright blue minivan and a yellow ural :)

Hello, peeps. I have a few suggestions for the game. 1. Camo nets -This would mainly be for hiding vehicles. I noticed many people hide their vehicles in the middle of a forest, in between bushes. They are still QUITE noticable. Implimenting camo nets would allow players to more effectively conceal their vehicles that they spent hours fixing. 2. Booby traps - I know the bear trap is in the game, but giving players a few tools to defend their encampment when they are not online would be nice. For instance- Fishing wires + a pulley + grenade = grenade goes off when another player steps over the wire. There can be many combinations. Maybe even: Shovel + Wood Pile + camo net= Punji stick trap. Fall through a hole with pointy sticks inside. Hide it with camo net. 3. Trap doors/ secret entrances/ combination locks - self-explanatory, gives only certain players access to their base. This may be a bit too much, as it would completely limit other players from looting. My point is, it doesn't have to be that others simply CANNOT access our belongings, but give the owners a way to protect their property better. (Help us hide them or make them a pain to access). 4. Shooting while onboard vehicles -People who are not driving shoot be able to roll the windows down an fire their weapons at pursuers. -maybe the driver can fire his side arm while driving but have less control. Team work, Cooperation: -The lack of cooperation between players is a big problem in this game. Here are a few ideas to counter that. 1. Place trade camps. -Placing camps where fire arms will be confiscated during your stay will be effective. Here, players can set up stands to sell equipment and supplies that they gathered across the wasteland. Items can be sold through: trading for other items or make a currency system. 2. Co-operation level: - Give progression to cooperation. Cooperating with players more and more gives you additional levels or experience points. They can be allocated or automatically give you bonuses. For instance: Damage bonuses to cooperative players. Sneak bonus to cooperative players. Award players for cooperating through bonuses or equipment. Humanity: Gain humanity for killing zombies. Massive humanity increase for helping other players. Becomxing a hero should give players more bonuses. Other suggestions: 1. More Weapons!!! -This has probably been said so many times. The only ARs we see in game are M16 and Ak47 variants. I want to see some variety! G36? AUG? F2000? SCAR-L? 2. Change of scenery - The same old map gets quite boring quite quickly. I've played the Lingor Island mod and the change of scenery was very interesting. New areas to explore and new views. It revitalized the fun for me. Being able to visit multiple different regions which are accessible by following the roads that lead you out of the map.

5 vehicles Ha. I currently have One tractor and two bycles (they rule) bikes are pretty easy to stash, i mean i hid mine in a tree and you cant see it for crap. The tractor on the other hand, you can see that thing a mile off. A camo net would be nice.

It's difficult to say. A week or two ago I logged on to my server to find every vehicle on the map blown up, most of which were still at their spawn location since the server was just restarted hours before (and vehicle saving was pooched). I'm not talking "the ones at my camp", I'm talking top to bottom, left to right. Every vehicle spawn I encountered was exploded. Either a hacker used some "kill all vehicles" hack or teleported around and knocked them out. This isn't to say it would be impossible for a player to do this, but the window of time available and how long it would take to run all over the entire map doing this don't match up. So, I'd say it's a possibility a hacker is doing this. But, there's no way to know for sure. Hacker or not, I think I'd switch servers at this point if I were you.

tbh add what wasteland has to dayz sorted. dayz has no real purpose. without purpose dayz is soon over. wasteland has missions which gives a purpose , you can build bases and so on. vehicles better more comon . stops hoarding and is more fun.

Server: DE 1826 Time: ~ 12:00 noon, GMT. The server has recently been updated to 1.7.2.6 and had just been rebooted and all vehicles had disappeared. We spawned in Olsha and headed towards the tractor spawn near the airfield there, when the only other person on the server AntiSniperDayZ came along in a fully repaired ATV - which was slightly suspicious but we just presumed he may have had the parts on him. He drove by us first then came back and proceeded to kill two people with a silent weapon. One of the two he killed then spawned in Kamenka, about 3 minutes later in Balota he then appears and attacks one of the people that were just killed, he then gets chased away. Skip ahead another few kills of us in various locations, he then stands around in front of the players he just killed in the middle of Cherno and spawns in an ATV and drives off. UPDATE: Added video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6meevmqF4nk